[Orca-users] Orca dying on the vine?

[Hudes, Dana]

If you would move to using mercurial instead of git I think you might like it. Hosting of project at btibucket.org

Mercurial has a very active community with many add-on tools

Thus far my modifications are to orcallator.cfg and orcallator.se

I was considering trying my hand at modifying to use use threads and the Compres'Bzip2 library instead of forking off bunzip2 child processes in the hope that might make orca scale better. If you've tried that and found it unsatisfactory, I'd like to know. 


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From: orca-users-bounces+hudesd=hra.nyc.gov at orcaware.com <orca-users-bounces+hudesd=hra.nyc.gov at orcaware.com>
To: Allen Eastwood <mixal at paconet.us>
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com <orca-users at orcaware.com>
Sent: Sun Aug 30 01:33:12 2009
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Orca dying on the vine?


On Aug 8, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Allen Eastwood wrote:

> So, with the rather low level of activity both on the mailing lists  
> and development for Orca and SE, have we gotten to the point where  
> Orca/SE are pretty much dead?  They've been great tools over the  
> years, and I haven't seen anything that gives the same level of  
> insight.

I've always felt that Orca targets sysadmin people more than  
developers so doesn't see as many contributions as compared to an open- 
source package that targets developers.

Orca is GPL and I do take patches for it.  So there's nothing stopping  
people from contributing.

It could be a good idea to move it to github so that people can make  
use of github's forking model that makes it easier for people to work  
on their copy of the code and I can pull those changes into my version  
of Orca for official releases.

I'm always looking for people who want to get involved and contribute  
code.  I've given commit access to a few people to make it better.  So  
the more the merrier.

Regards,
Blair

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